Patents Assigned to Agfa
  • Patent number: 11802215
    Abstract: A pigmented aqueous inkjet ink set for manufacturing decorative panels comprising: a) a cyan aqueous inkjet ink containing a copper phthalocyanine pigment; b) a red aqueous inkjet ink containing a red pigment selected from the group consisting of C.I. Pigment Red 254, C.I. Pigment Red 122, C.I. Pigment Red 176 and mixed crystals thereof; c) a yellow aqueous inkjet ink containing a pigment C.I Pigment Yellow 150 or a mixed crystal thereof; and d) a black aqueous inkjet ink containing a carbon black pigment; wherein the aqueous inkjet inks contain a surfactant. An inkjet printing method for manufacturing decorative panels is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Jens Lenaerts, Nadine Willems, Lionel Petton, Amandine Ligot, Sonny Wynants
  • Patent number: 11801700
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of decorated natural leather including the steps of: attaching a crusted leather (45) with its corium side by an adhesive (46) to a temporary carrier (47); inkjet printing the crusted leather (45) on its grain side with one or more pigmented inkjet inks; wherein the surface area of the temporary carrier (47) is larger than the surface area of the crusted leather (45).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Jens Lenaerts, Dieter Jancart, Johan Loccufier, Tom Cloots
  • Publication number: 20230332310
    Abstract: A separator for alkaline electrolysis comprising a support (10) and a porous layer (20) provided on the support, characterized in that the support is capable of being substantially removed from the separator. The support is preferably removed by the electrolyte of an alkaline electrolyser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: AGFA-Gevaert NV
    Inventors: Willem Mues, Cristina Tudisco, Hanne Verwaest
  • Patent number: 11781267
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing printed textiles includes the steps of: a) inkjet printing an image onto a textile substrate with one or more inkjet inks including an aqueous medium and capsules composed of a polymeric shell surrounding a core which contains one or more thermally curable compounds; and b) thermally fixing the inkjet printed image. Inkjet printed textiles contain a printed image on a textile substrate wherein pigments and/or disperse dyes are at least partially encapsulated by polymeric shell material from capsules composed of a polymeric shell surrounding a core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Johan Loccufier
  • Patent number: 11781030
    Abstract: An aqueous dispersion of a capsule composed of a polymeric shell surrounding a core, wherein the core contains a silicone containing compound. The dispersion is suitable for pre-treatment liquids and inkjet inks in textile printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Agfa NV
    Inventors: Johan Loccufier, Luc DeCoster
  • Publication number: 20230311474
    Abstract: A lithographic printing plate precursor is disclosed including a support and a coating comprising a photopolymerisable layer including a polymerisable compound, a photoinitiator, and an infrared absorbing compound including a long chain linear or branched alkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: AGFA Offset BV
    Inventors: Thomas Billiet, Johan Loccufier, Eva Vermeiren, Faïma Lazreg
  • Patent number: 11776699
    Abstract: Systems and methods for integrating a plurality of healthcare software applications. A user initiates one or more software applications required to perform different parts of a healthcare task. The software applications include a local application installed on the user's device and a web-based application accessed through a browser. A host application is launched in order to facilitate local two-way communication between the local application and the web-based application. The host application generates a local communication server on the user device through which the local application and web application communicate. This allows a user to easily and efficiently perform multiple parts of the healthcare tasks. This also allows different healthcare software applications to be integrated without requiring any plug-ins or other integration components to be installed on the user's device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE NV
    Inventors: Mohannad A. K. Hussain, William Eric Wallace
  • Patent number: 11760124
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing decorative panels comprising the steps: inkjet printing on a substrate an oligochromatic pattern by an inkjet printing system to form a decorative layer (250); impregnating by a resin impregnator (320) the decorative layer with a thermosetting resin; heat pressing (500) by a heating press (550) the impregnated decorative layer (41) together with a core layer (410) for forming a decorative panel (650); wherein the method comprises an extra step of identifying, by using a color control unit (250), a color acceptance of the decorative panel between the step of forming the decorative layer (200) and the step of impregnating the decorative layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Marc Mahy
  • Publication number: 20230279251
    Abstract: An aqueous polymeric particle dispersion, the particle comprises a polymer and a Si—O-containing moiety, the Si—O-containing moiety is part of a compound, the compound forming a solid mixture with the polymer. The resin particles can be incorporated in aqueous printing liquids such as aqueous inkjet inks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Freya Curinckx, Fabienne Goethals
  • Publication number: 20230266667
    Abstract: A lithographic printing plate precursor is disclosed including on a support a coating comprising (i) a photopolymerisable layer including a polymerisable compound, a first infrared absorbing dye including at least one electron withdrawing substituent and a photoinitiator; and (ii) a top layer provided above the photopolymerisable layer which includes a second infrared absorbing compound which includes a thermocleavable group which transforms into a group which is a stronger electron-donor upon exposure to heat and/or IR radiation, and is capable of forming a print-out image upon exposure to heat and/or IR radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: AGFA Offset BV
    Inventors: Thomas Billiet, Kristof Heylen, Faïma Lazreg, Johan Loccufier
  • Patent number: 11731418
    Abstract: A drive circuit for charging a printhead for ejecting drops of ink is provided, the printhead having a capacitance. The drive circuit comprises a power supply comprising a first connection and a second connection. An inductor is connected to the first connection of the power supply, wherein the inductor is connected to a first drive connection of the printhead to provide a charge path for current to charge the capacitance. The second connection of the power supply is connected to a second drive connection of the printhead. The drive circuit also comprises means for applying a plurality of charging voltage pulses to the inductor to provide a single charge of the capacitance for a single cycle of ink ejection from the printhead. A method of operating the drive circuit is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventor: Hamilton Buchanan Cleare
  • Patent number: 11727573
    Abstract: Method of segmenting anatomical structures such as organs in 3D scans in an architecture that combines U-net, time-distributed convolutions and bidirectional convolutional LSTM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: Agfa Healthcare NV, VRVis Zentrum fur Virtual Reality und Visualisierung Forschungs-GmbH
    Inventors: Alexey Novikov, David Major, Maria Wimmer, Dimitrios Lenis, Katja Buehler
  • Publication number: 20230243054
    Abstract: A separator for alkaline electrolysis comprising a porous support (10) and a first (20b) and second (30b) porous layer provided on respectively one side and the other side of the porous support, characterized in that the porous support has a thickness (d1) of 150 ?m or less and the total thickness (d2) of the separator is less than 250 ?m. Also a method is disclosed wherewith such a separator may be prepared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: AGFA-Gevaert NV
    Inventors: Willem Mues, Hanne Verwaest, Cristina Tudisco
  • Patent number: 11708505
    Abstract: An aqueous polyurethane resin having a cationic group in a side chain thereof is obtainable by reacting a polyester polyol, a polyisocyanate, and a diol containing a quaternary N-atom or amino group, the quaternary N-atom or amino group being not present in the carbon chain between the two hydroxyl groups of the diol. The polyester polyol is obtained by reacting an aromatic polycarboxylic acid and a polyol. The polyurethane resin is suitable as a resin in treatment liquids for inkjet printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Hubertus Van Aert, Ellen Bertels
  • Publication number: 20230226828
    Abstract: An inkjet printing method on a continuous substrate web (100), having a pair of edges (1011, 1021), comprising the steps: a) forming a pair of elongated strips (101, 102) by bending said substrate web (100) along a pair of lines (1010, 1020) wherein each line is parallel to the pair of edges (1011, 1021); and b) supporting said bent substrate web in a support zone (201) of a printer 200) wherein said pair of elongated strips (101, 102) are oriented below said zone (201); and printing an image (500) on said supported substrate web by an inkjet-printhead (202) of said printer (200).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Paul Wouters, Martin De Kegelaer
  • Publication number: 20230230213
    Abstract: A processing method for enhancing the image quality of an image, more particularly a digital medical grey scale image, that comprises the steps of a) decomposing an original image into multiple detail images at different resolution levels and/or orientations, b) processing the detail images to obtain processed detail images, c) computing a result image by applying a reconstruction algorithm to the processed detail ages, said reconstruction algorithm being such that if it were applied to the detail images without processing, then said original image or a close approximation thereof would be obtained, the processing of the detail images comprises the steps of: d) calculating at least one conjugate detail image, and e) computing at least one value of the processed detail images as a function of said conjugate detail image and said detail images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Joris Soons, Pieter Vuylsteke
  • Publication number: 20230226827
    Abstract: An inkjet printing method on a continuous substrate web (100), having a pair of edges (1011, 1021), comprising the steps: a) forming a pair of elongated strips (101, 102) by bending said substrate web (100) along a pair of lines (1010, 1020) wherein each line is parallel to the pair of edges (1011, 1021); and b) supporting said bent substrate web in a support zone (201) of a printer (200) wherein said pair of elongated strips (101, 102) are oriented towards said zone (201); and printing an image (500) on said supported substrate web by an inkjet-printhead (202) of said printer (200).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Paul Wouters, Martin De Kegelaer
  • Publication number: 20230220145
    Abstract: An aqueous polyurethane resin dispersion, the polyurethane resin is obtainable by reacting an allophanate based isocyanate according to general formula I or II, optionally a polyether diol, a polyol containing a quaternary N-atom or tertiary amino group and a polyol selected from the group consisting of polyester polyol, polyether polyol, polycarbonate polyol, a polyacrylate polyol, a polyolefin and a polyamide polyol. The polyurethane resin is suitable as a resin in treatment liquids of substrates and images made by inkjet printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Hubertus Van Aert, Marie Lehericey
  • Publication number: 20230211599
    Abstract: A lithographic printing plate precursor is disclosed which comprises a support, a photopolymerizable image recording layer and an overcoat which comprises a low-molecular radical inhibitor. After image-wise exposure, the plate is heated whereby the radical inhibitor diffuses from the overcoat to the image recording layer, resulting in an increase of the daylight stability of the exposed and heated precursor. Such plate is especially suitable for on-press processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: AGFA Offset BV
    Inventors: Katleen Himschoot, Eva Vermeiren, Thomas Billiet, Fabienne Goethals
  • Publication number: 20230213856
    Abstract: A lithographic printing plate precursor is disclosed including a support and a coating comprising (i) a photopolymerisable layer including a polymerisable compound, a photoinitiator and an asymmetrically substituted infrared absorbing compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: AGFA Offset BV
    Inventors: Faïma Lazreg, Johan Loccufier, Thomas Billiet